Celtiberia soriana
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New iconography celtiberica

New iconography celtiberica

A fibulae of horse or rider only, already known in the world Celtiberian, Numancia and necropolis have provided the exclusive distinction staffs topped by protomos horse, with and without a rider, or human heads. In addition, it is noteworthy articulated bronze plates found in the necropolis which, together with the lengthy series of polychrome pottery found in the city, one of the iconographic and symbolic elements of greater weight and interest in the world Celtiberian. Both the rich iconography and symbolism of the representations embodied in them (all decorated with horses and astral elements) as well as the deliberate choice to be part of funerary offerings, we speak of the importance that the horse had on beliefs and Celtiberian in the afterlife, as well as closer to a world, still little known, as is the cosmology of this people, which leads to the astronomical scale, to look at the sky.